Our Guest Steve Hannett
AUDIENCE: [APPLAUSE] Hallelujah!
STEVE: Well God bless you! It’s so great to be with you today! We’re going to be talking about a work that God wants to accomplish and everybody here I don’t need to see a show of hands because you’ve all been touched by it. I’ve been touched by it and it’s discouragement. We’ve had it happen to everybody. Sometimes things don’t go the way we want them to go and we don’t understand and today I want to be able to be used of God to break that power and cause you not to feel just comforted but comforted through the victory that you’re actually walking in.
AUDIENCE: Yeah!
STEVE: The Christian Church really doesn’t understand the Gospel nearly as much as we may think. We often will pray prayers that say God please help me to deal with what problem I’ve got going on. Here’s the reality: God doesn’t want you dealing with it. God wants you overcoming it!
AUDIENCE: Yes!
STEVE: Well the mentality of the Church is very soft often because we’re just kind of settling for less than God’s best! Would you agree with meÆ
AUDIENCE: Yes.
STEVE: You see whether you’re here in the studio or you’re listening at home we have to realize that God the Father gave the Messiah! There is no higher level of blessing in all creation than the giving of His son! The Bible says that if He freely gave us Jesus how much more freely will He not give us all things? Can you say æall thingsÆÆ
AUDIENCE: All things.
STEVE: The way to access the heavens, the way to bring heaven to the earth, the way to allow the will of God to be done on the earth as it is in heaven is the thing that very few people enjoy doing. It’s prayer! Prayer is the line! Prayer is the line! You see Jesus is the portal. Jesus is the gate. He’s the entrance into the heavenly realm! He’s Jacob’s ladder. He’s the way in but prayer is the vehicle by which you enter in!
AUDIENCE: Yes! [APPLAUSE]
STEVE: And so in the Letter of James in chapter 5 we hear this amazing testimony. It says the effective and fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. It says the effective and fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Well first we must ask who is the righteous. Those are the people whom Yeshua has been able to cleanse with His blood. And I agree that prayer is communicating with God but it’s too general. You see our problems are specific so I believe our prayer needs to be specific! We don’t just want to pray. We want to pray effectively with fervency to change things! Amen? And you see what happened was the Bible says in verse 17: Elijah was a man with a nature like ours. And he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth produced its fruit. The work in-between heaven and earth was Elijah! But here’s the amazing thing. We elevate Elijah into this place that seems untouchable for us but James, because the Holy Spirit is speaking through James, is explaining, listen, James is saying Elijah is a man like us! The Bible is revealing that we can walk in the way of Elijah and get the same results as Elijah if weÆd understand what Elijah understood!
AUDIENCE: Yes!
STEVE: So to do that we’ve got to go back to the Old Testament. We’re going to journey back to the First Book of Kings, chapter 18: And it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah. Wow! Elijah is a prophet. His ear is gifted to hear the voice of God, the voice of heaven! He hears the voice because the Word of the Lord came to Elijah! I love this because there’s grace here because God sent it! Psalm 107, verse 20 declares to us that God sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions. I am amazed at how many people are still searching for the source of power, the source of miracle power when God already revealed the source is me!
AUDIENCE: [CLAPPING]
STEVE: But I’m not going to be there. I’m going to send My Word! My Word will not come back void! Wow!
AUDIENCE: Yes! Woo! Hallelujah!
STEVE: So when God says the Word came to Elijah He wasn’t talking about some information. He’s saying My authority came to Elijah!
AUDIENCE: [APPLAUSE]
STEVE: My power came to Elijah! My will came to Elijah! What was the Word? It came in the third year saying “Go present yourself to Ahab and I will send rain on the earth.” We hear in the Letter of James that Elijah prayed but actually what was happening was Elijah was responding in alignment on the earth to what he was hearing in heaven!
AUDIENCE: Yes! [CLAPPING]
STEVE: Prayer needs to be rooted not in the earth but rooted in the Heavenlies! Now I know this may be difficult for some but as you’re in there in your home and as you’re listening to this I want you to do your best to grab hold of this but right now I’m in two places at the same time. Now if you’re a believer in Jesus you’re in two places at the same time. In the natural I’m walking here on God’s earth. But in the Spirit I’m not standing. I’m not walking.
AUDIENCE: Yes! [CLAPPING]
STEVE: I’m seated with Jesus in the heavenly places!
AUDIENCE: Yes! Yes! [CLAPPING]
STEVE: And the ‘seat with him’ means ‘the work is done!’ It means the work is finished and so I’m resting with Christ in heavenly places! And all I have to do is respond in the heavens and release it on the earth!
AUDIENCE: Uh-huh! That’s right! Yes, Lord!
STEVE: Elijah had power because Elijah listened to the right voice!
AUDIENCE: Woo! Amen!
STEVE: Now I respect experts on the earth but I recognize that every expert on earth has wisdom that compared to God is foolishness.
AUDIENCE: Mm.
STEVE: But because God said go to King Ahab, it’s time. I will send rain listen to what happened. Later on in chapter 18, I’m going to go all the way to verse 41 if you’re following with me. It said: ‘then Elijah said to Ahab “go up, eat and drink for there is the sound,” the sound, “of the abundance of rain.” So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. Then he bowed down on the ground and put his face between his knees and said to his servant, go up now and look toward the sea. Let me stop and share about this. There was no rain! How could Elijah say I hear the sound of the abundance of rain if there was no rain. There was no cloud to make rain at this time yet he says I hear the sound! He says there is the sound of the abundance of rain! Let me share with you. His ears heard what was going on in heaven before it ever manifested on the earth! Do you know that your healing, do you know that your miracle that God has already spoken be ye healed. God has already spoken “arise and walk!” God has already said for you and I; sozo, shalom, perfect wholeness!
AUDIENCE: Woo!
STEVE: But we haven’t heard, we haven’t seen, we haven’t heard, we haven’t discerned the voice but if you could hear the voice among all voices, that still voice, the word that will come with a candle late at night in your kitchen with a cup of coffee and you’ll realize that God Himself is speaking to you!
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